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Baptist pastor makes history

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Early Flying Machine Predated Wright Brothers’ Work
On October 12, 1901, the Scientific American magazine announced the news of construction of an experimental aircraft built by Burrell Cannon of Pittsburg, Texas. By the next August 1902 (exact date unknown), the aircraft called Ezekiel Airship allegedly did fly 160 feet at a height of about 10 to 12 feet off the ground.
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Cannon was pastor of a Baptist church in Pittsburg who later served in Longview. He was inspired to build the craft based on description of a flying machine in the biblical book of Ezekiel. Cannon’s original plans were destroyed in a fire in 1922.
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